Antonio Banderas - Oh What A Circus

Oh what a circus
Oh what a show
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress
Called Eva Peron
We've all gone crazy
Mourning all day
And mourning all night
Falling over ourselves to get all
Of the misery right

Oh what an exit
That's how to go
When they're ringing
Your curtain down
Demand to be buried
Like Eva Peron
It's quite a sunset
And good for the country
In a roundabout way
We've made the front page of all
The world's papers today

But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling
Hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess
Has lived among us?
How will we ever
Get by without her?

She had her moments
She had some style
The best show in town
Was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada
Crying Eva Peron
But that's all gone now
As soon as the smoke
From the funeral clears
We're all gonna see and how
She did nothing for years

(Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia)

You let down your people Evita
You were supposed
To have been immortal
That's all they wanted
Not much to ask for
But in the end you
Could not deliver

Sing you fools
But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers
Because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead
Your king is through
And she's not coming
Back to you

Show business kept us all alive
Since seventeen October 1945
But the star has gone
The glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state
For a state to be in

Instead of government
We had a stage
Instead of ideas
A prima donna's rage
Instead of help
We were given a crowd
She didn't say much
But she said it loud

Sing you fools
But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers
Because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead
Your king is through
She's not coming back to you

(Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina Peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes
Et flentes o clemens o pia)

Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are
I think we all are
So share my glory
So share my coffin
So share my glory
So share my coffin

It's our funeral too.